It's worse than that. Much worse.
First, we not only let them "buy weapons up here", we gave them the money to make the purchases! Over $10 million was funded in Porkulus for Fast & Furious gun purchases.
Second, there was absolutely no effort to "track" the weapons. The only appropriation and effort made to track the weapons was by an individual ATF agent who, recognizing this flaw, bought two GPS devices at Radio Shack out of his own pocket. He incorporated them into a pair of shipments, but the batteries gave out before he could learn anything.
That was the only effort that the ATF, the FBI or DEA made to "track" the weapons.
So, obviously, "tracking" the weapons was not the point of the operation.
In that case, what do you suppose it was all about...???
what do you suppose it was all about...???